2.18
2.21
Community
and
Credits

2.18.1
2.21.1
Community

The
FHIR
community
meets
as
part
of
the
wider
HL7
community
and
draws
on
its
extensive
human
resources,
institutional
memory,
previous
standards
and
corporate
support.
HL7
itself
owns
FHIR
and
makes
it
freely
available
and
the
community
relies
on
HL7
provided
HL7-provided
infrastructure.

Te
The
FHIR
community
gathers,
meets,
or
communicates
using
the
following
infrastructure,
provided
by
HL7
directly,
or
by
the
the
HL7
FHIR
Foundation
:

gForge
and
GitHub
for
task
management,
and
also
for
subversion
(the
master
FHIR
source)
source
control

In
addition,
the
community
holds
regular
face
to
face
connectathons
and
meetings
as
part
of
the
HL7
Working
Group
meetings
.
The
formal
governance
arrangements
that
manage
FHIR
development
are
documented
on
HL7's
wiki
Confluence
site
.

2.18.2
2.21.2
Credits

FHIR
is
a
specification
produced
by
the
HL7
Community.
Many
individuals
and
organizations
(1000s)
contribute
to
the
FHIR
specification.
specification
through
many
roles:

Innumerable
others
have
assisted
through
participation
in
formal
QA,
submission
of
ballot
comments,
discussions
on
the
old
Implementer's
Skype
chat,
http://chat.fhir.org,
the
FHIR
list
server,
participation
at
HL7
Working
Group
Meetings
and
through
submission
of
change
requests